Terry's Tech Tips

As we talk about student engagement at CCHS, providing students with ' authentic, meaningful, real-world learning experiences ' is one technique that increases student engagement.  Theresa Ruggiero's Meteorology students routinely engage with meteorology experts to answer timely, real-world weather questions.  Here is how she does it! As a reminder, the CCHS Student Engagement Committee defines Student Engagement as: ...the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and/or passion that students show when they are learning or being taught, which extends to the level of motivation they have to learn and progress in their education. Theresa's students watch the Weather Underground internet broadcast WUTV on Wednesday nights as homework.  (WUTV is a national weather news program shown weeknights 6-8 p.m.)  Using knowledge learned during Meteorology class, students post questions to expert meteorologists at the weather program abou...

If you have never used Twitter before, it can be very useful!  Twitter is great for: following events as they are happening .  People on the scene will tweet out photos, text, and video as things happen.  This makes Twitter a great social media resource for following current events as they unfold, weather, and sports! Twitter has really established itself as the ' Professional' social media platform.   You can build your PLN (Professional Learning Network) by following people or searching hashtags (#) whose topic is education. If you remember that Twitter is about the here and now,  posts older than a few minutes or hours are no longer relevant!  This can help you mentally deal with the sheer volume of information. Getting Started: Navigate to  https://twitter.com/ and create an account.  Click here for step by step directions. Finding content you want to receive: Twitter will send you tweets about topics you are interested...